Girl, 17, Abducted In Nn East End

March 07, 1991

NEWPORT NEWS — A 17-year-old girl was abducted at knifepoint as she walked to her bus stop at Harbor Homes Wednesday morning, but police are discounting any link between this incident and the attacks on four girls in the East End in January.

The girl was walking near 16th Street and Terminal Avenue when a man jumped from behind a dumpster about 6:30 a.m., police spokesman Sgt. Michael Brewer said.

Brewer said the man placed a knife against her neck. A passing car's backfire distracted the would-be attacker, allowing the girl to escape, Brewer said.

Police were looking for a black male, possibly in his early 30s, 5-feet-10 to 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, Brewer said. He said the man was wearing a black ski mask, black leather coat, jeans and dress black shoes.

In the January attacks on girls between 10 and 13 years old, police are seeking a suspect described as an approximately 6-foot, slender black man in his late teens or early 20s. The suspect has a very light complexion, with a faint mustache and a mole or dark mark under one of his eyes, police say.